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de Burlet and sold them to Stefan von Auspitz. [3]Stefan Auspitz was a Viennese banker
de Burlet and sold them to Stefan von Auspitz. [3]Stefan Auspitz was a Viennese banker
de Burlet and sold them to Stefan von Auspitz. [3]Stefan Auspitz was a Viennese banker
In the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Virtues were often personified by human figures carrying identifying attributes. Charity typically holds one or more children.
Faith and Charity stand on bases treated as little banks of clouds, as if they were
Steep banks sloping toward the stream are mounded with snow.
It is impossible to guess what 16-year-old Ginevra de’ Benci was thinking as she sat for this portrait to commemorate her upcoming marriage. The young Florentine woman has a distant gaze.
, richly detailed portrait depicts Ginevra de’ Benci, the daughter of a wealthy banker
The Dutch Republic depended on international commerce and shipping for its wealth and power. Whether traveling on the open sea or through the network of rivers and canals that spread across the low-lying Rhine river delta, Dutch ships carried commodities to and from markets at home and abroad.
goods and passengers between the numerous towns and villages located along the banks
Among early nineteenth-century artists, John Constable was one of the most assiduous and systematic students of the sky. As a landscape painter he was acutely aware of the sky as the principal source of light and of the extent to which cloud cover, the formations of clouds, and atmospheric effects could influence the appearances of nature.
Wisps of white clouds are interspersed among banks of darker gray clouds against
Francis Basset (1757–1835) likely commissioned Thomas Gainsborough to paint a pair of portraits depicting himself and his wife, Frances Susanna Coxe (c. 1760–1823), soon after he purchased their new home in 1785.
The paintings adorned the stately Radnor House, built in 1673 on the banks of the
Learn the hallmarks of one of the most recognizable art movements in the world.
on canvas, Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp, 2004.166.4 Alfred Sisley, The Banks
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To make it, Cropsey carefully observed the trees on the banks of the Hudson River